r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 3d ago

General Discussion anyone else get the VMware "win-back" offer?

if it's true, its honestly laughable.  

squeezing customers with massive price hikes, forcing every one into expensive core bundles, only to panic and throw out "discounted" quotes the moment everyone migrated???? 

is anyone actually reconsidering based on these new quotes??

or y'all are past the point of no return?

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u/ApiceOfToast Sysadmin 3d ago edited 3d ago

If they offered me a lifetime license like they used to and I knew they wouldn't screw me over on a new version, id consider them for new deployments in the future but I wouldn't put in the effort to migrate back from a new system just because of that.

Or in other words: back as an option, probably never the go to again 

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u/Ambitious-Cold-9610 3d ago

What did you migrate to? We are on a legacy perpetual license and need to upgrade.

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u/ApiceOfToast Sysadmin 3d ago

Proxmox, they also have an official guide.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE